ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,793, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Integrated circuit chip storage container" was invented by Nadav Tsur (Bet Herut, Israel) and Yair Sommer (Even Yehuda, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device container/carrier includes a cartridge having a plurality of faces and a device housing slot recessed from one or more of the faces, where each slot is configured to house at least one IC device. The container further includes a lid rotatably coupled with the cartridge, the lid having a window recess configured to align with each device housing slot for access...